Didier Drogba: I want Chelsea's John Terry and Frank Lampard to join me at Shanghai Shenhua

Didier Drogba was greeted by hundreds of ecstatic fans as he arrived in Shanghai to join his new club on Saturday and immediately called for a couple of his Chelsea team-mates to join him.Drogba, whose switch to the Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua has transformed him into one of the highest-paid footballers on earth, said he wanted to see John Terry and Frank Lampard at the club.

“I need to speak to my president,” Drogba said. “Because I want them in my team.”

Drogba was met at Pudong international airport with deafening chants of “Drogba-la-la-la-la-la”. Fans clad in the club’s blue and red strip paraded through the airport waving Ivory Coast flags and photographs of Drogba.

The welcome party then relocated to Shanghai’s glitzy Ritz-Carlton hotel where the former chelsea striker was officially unveiled.

“Believe me, it’s not about money. I’m really happy to be here,” said Drogba, whose two-and-a-half year contract at Shanghai Shenhua is reputedly worth nearly £200,000 a week. “I am opening a new chapter and the new chapter is Shanghai Shenhua.”